Yu Lin

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Yu Lin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Lin has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Yu Lin's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (39 papers), Genome Rearrangement Algorithms (19 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers). Yu Lin is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (39 papers), Genome Rearrangement Algorithms (19 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers). Yu Lin collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yu Lin's co-authors include Pavel A. Pevzner, Jeffrey Yuan, Mikhail Kolmogorov, Bernard M. E. Moret, Liang Qiao, Yi Yang, Vaibhav Rajan, Yongqun He, Jijun Tang and Vijini Mallawaarachchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yu Lin

85 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Assembly of long, error-prone reads using repeat graphs

2019 2.9k citations Mikhail Kolmogorov, Jeffrey Yuan et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Lin China	22	2.7k	1.1k	975	635	352	92	4.7k
Jeffrey Yuan United States	13	2.7k 1.0×	998 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	487 0.8×	349 1.0×	24	4.4k
Mikhail Kolmogorov United States	13	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	519 0.8×	380 1.1×	22	4.4k
Stephen W. Turner United States	20	4.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	755 1.2×	242 0.7×	22	6.2k
Patrick Marks United States	11	2.4k 0.9×	902 0.8×	852 0.9×	402 0.6×	187 0.5×	13	3.9k
Cheryl Heiner United States	18	3.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	722 1.1×	204 0.6×	21	5.7k
Adrian R. Tivey United Kingdom	7	3.2k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	677 0.7×	628 1.0×	204 0.6×	7	5.5k
Fuquan Hu China	31	2.2k 0.8×	804 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	535 0.8×	340 1.0×	80	4.2k
Stéphane Cruveiller France	33	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	888 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	425 1.2×	71	4.4k
Kim Rutherford United Kingdom	25	3.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	944 1.5×	308 0.9×	46	6.2k
Einar Andreas Rødland Norway	19	4.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	389 0.6×	163 0.5×	27	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Lin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Lin

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yu Lin. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yu Lin. The network helps show where Yu Lin may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Lin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Lin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Lin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yu Lin. Yu Lin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Yunjie, Yu Lin, Xinyu Li, et al.. (2025). Identification of the sources and migration of antimony in karst terraces via Sb stable isotopes. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 494. 138570–138570. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Yu, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the morphophysiological, biochemical, and yield responses of maize genotypes to contrasting nitrogen conditions using multivariate approaches. TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 49(5). 823–846.

Li, Xinyu, Yu Lin, Yunjie Wu, et al.. (2025). Application of Antimony Stable Isotopes in Revealing the Source and Vertical Migration of Sb in Soil. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(12). 6285–6296. 4 indexed citations

Mallawaarachchi, Vijini & Yu Lin. (2022). Accurate Binning of Metagenomic Contigs Using Composition, Coverage, and Assembly Graphs. Journal of Computational Biology. 29(12). 1357–1376. 14 indexed citations

Feng, Haodi, et al.. (2021). MultiTrans: An Algorithm for Path Extraction Through Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Transcriptome Assembly. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 19(1). 48–56. 4 indexed citations

Mallawaarachchi, Vijini, et al.. (2021). Improving metagenomic binning results with overlapped bins using assembly graphs. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 16(1). 3–3. 14 indexed citations

Yang, Yi, Xiaohui Liu, Chengpin Shen, et al.. (2020). In silico spectral libraries by deep learning facilitate data-independent acquisition proteomics. Nature Communications. 11(1). 146–146. 157 indexed citations

Shao, Jingyu, Qing Wang, & Yu Lin. (2019). Skyblocking for entity resolution. Information Systems. 85. 30–43. 8 indexed citations

Kolmogorov, Mikhail, Jeffrey Yuan, Yu Lin, & Pavel A. Pevzner. (2019). Assembly of long, error-prone reads using repeat graphs. Nature Biotechnology. 37(5). 540–546. 2927 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Yu, et al.. (2018). Phylogenetic Reconstruction for Copy-Number Evolution Problems. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 16(2). 694–699.

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Wong, Thomas K. F., Louis Ranjard, Yu Lin, & Allen G. Rodrigo. (2018). HaploJuice : accurate haplotype assembly from a pool of sequences with known relative concentrations. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 389–389. 3 indexed citations

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Lin, Yu, et al.. (2018). Detection and analysis of ancient segmental duplications in mammalian genomes. Genome Research. 28(6). 901–909. 25 indexed citations

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Feng, Bing, Yu Lin, Yan Guo, et al.. (2017). Reconstructing Yeasts Phylogenies and Ancestors from Whole Genome Data. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15209–15209. 11 indexed citations

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Lin, Yu, et al.. (2017). Can a breakpoint graph be decomposed into none other than 2-cycles?. Theoretical Computer Science. 734. 38–45. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Yu, Jeffrey Yuan, Mikhail Kolmogorov, et al.. (2016). Assembly of long error-prone reads using de Bruijn graphs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(52). E8396–E8405. 209 indexed citations

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Shao, Mingfu, Yu Lin, & Bernard M. E. Moret. (2014). An Exact Algorithm to Compute the Double-Cut-and-Join Distance for Genomes with Duplicate Genes. Journal of Computational Biology. 22(5). 425–435. 23 indexed citations

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Nair, Nishanth Ulhas, et al.. (2014). Study of cell differentiation by phylogenetic analysis using histone modification data. BMC Bioinformatics. 15(1). 269–269. 9 indexed citations

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He, Yongqun, Rebecca Racz, Yu Lin, et al.. (2013). Updates on the web-based VIOLIN vaccine database and analysis system. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D1124–D1132. 59 indexed citations

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Xiang, Zuoshuang, Yu Lin, & Yongqun He. (2012). Ontorat web server for automatic generation and annotations of new ontology terms.. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Yu, et al.. (2004). Leaf Downward Curvature and Delayed Flowering Caused by AtLH Overexpression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 46(9). 1106–1113. 4 indexed citations

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